Gary Hon

Dr. Gary Hon is an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center affiliated with the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences and the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics. He leads a research program focused on decoding the complexity of the human genome through two primary directions: understanding the molecular basis of cell state for regenerative medicine applications, and elucidating how non-coding variants contribute to development and disease. His lab employs integrative techniques at the interface of gene regulation, epigenetics, genome engineering, single-cell genomics, and bioinformatics.

His research interests span genomics, epigenetics, bioinformatics, gene regulation, stem cell biology, and disease mechanisms. Dr. Hon earned his graduate degree from UC San Diego's Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program and completed post-doctoral training in Dr. Bing Ren's lab before joining UT Southwestern in 2015.

Dr. Hon has received significant recognition including the CPRIT Scholar award and NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. His recent publications demonstrate a focus on advanced genomic techniques including Perturb-Seq optimization, single-cell transcriptomics in cancer and reproductive biology, enhancer network mapping, and stem cell modeling of human development.